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  1. thfcsteff

    Xavi Simons

    I am pretty fluid in how I view things generally, including our season. My ‘logic’ is fairly simple. When Xavi Simons as the chance to play a freer role and within a framework where teammate are closer at hand, then he shines. Look at the first-half yesterday; the shape wasn’t working, and Xavi...
  2. thfcsteff

    Xavi Simons

    I think in Xavi’s case it is about how you use him and how we set up to allow him to be the best he can be! In fairness, this is true of most players other than Harry Kane, who affects football matches wherever he is on the pitch!
  3. thfcsteff

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    You’re like one of our glorious hounds with a bone!!!
  4. thfcsteff

    Xavi Simons

    I think the main thing with a player like that is to give them the freedom and support to go where they need to go to influence the game. I have consistently said this about him since he arrived. He is someone who prospers when he can drift into half spaces.
  5. thfcsteff

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think so. It is a period of some uncertainty as a new regime tries to implement a new structure replacing that monolithic micro-management culture of the DL/DC era. It is hard for us to imagine just how fullsome their range and scope was over everything the club did, and the ramifications of...
  6. thfcsteff

    Xavi Simons

    Nah, it’s a fact re: Xavi. As a player, the way he plays the game, his best work is when we’re more compact going forward and allowing him to use that large space between the touchlines called ‘the middle’. Doesn’t matter who the manager is, this is about Xavi’s skillset. BTW, and not related...
  7. thfcsteff

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    The club are entering a vulnerable time. ST renewals will be due, and statements of intent will have to arrive sharpish to avoid what I think could be a huge drop-off in renewals. Whether that comes from an on-pitch revival (results-wise, I stand by my assertion that we will not see the sort of...
  8. thfcsteff

    Transfer thread

    The deal to be done for him was in the summer, when we simply didn’t push hard enough.
  9. thfcsteff

    Transfer thread

    This a true dialectic. It is, at once, easy to feel critical of his style of football and have great sympathy for the tools/support he appears not to have been given. I think if the window shuts today with no incomings uptop, it’d be great to know who sanctioned the sale of Johnson. If it was...
  10. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    What? You had a mullet at the final whistle???
  11. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    He's right. How he stayed on the pitch after committing two yellow card fouls which would've led to a red is beyond me. And you didn't work hard enough to get the game back. Has anyone reminded him that they were still a goal ahead after that goal. Toss-pot.
  12. thfcsteff

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    It feels like a critical juncture, one which really requires recognition of the green shoots rather than perpetual complaint about what type of football we do/don’t want. We are three games unbeaten and in the last 16 of the CL. I still think we can haul ourselves into EL qualification with a...
  13. thfcsteff

    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I think we’d also agree that neither player are particularly schooled in how TF wants us to play, and as such mistake will find them more easily.
  14. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    I also think our younger players are used to a different type of game, and it has taken them some time to adapt to what TF looks for.
  15. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    Indeed. I thought 3-4-3 would work, but crucially I think the CM pairing was ‘off’. I don’t blame Biss, but he plays a diff game to Frankball, and was clearly caught between himself and the system on the first goal. We just did not seem sure who and when to engage and press first-half, and I...
  16. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    Agreed! I was primarily happy for us, but also happy for him. He deserves a break, is amidst a genuine injury crisis, and has come through a tough wek unbeaten. A moment for us all to rally and enjoy.
  17. thfcsteff

    *** Official Film Thread ***

    I actually dislike it now. A vulgar affair.
  18. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    I think we'll see this the more I think about it...especially with Spence and Odobert out. Vicario Palhinha Dragusin Romero Gray Gallagher Sarr Udogie Muani Solanke Xavi
  19. thfcsteff

    American politics

    I have my own reasons for not posting very much at all in here or the other political forums. I would say that of the many online outlets, I think this is overall a really decent one for balanced conversation (i.e. it can be found) but will say that overall, I find that all online outlets are...
  20. thfcsteff

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project, Sunday Feb 1 KO - 4.30pm***

    If the injury report is true, I'd stick with whatever shape it is we're currently most comfortable with (seems to be 3-4-3) and as long as that is what we have prepped for this week, here's what I'd do...again IF this is the shape we've trained for... Vicario Palhinha Dragusin Romero Gray...
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